Interior-point methods and their applications to power systems: A classification of publications and software codes

Since Karmarkar's first successful interior-point algorithm for linear prog ramming in 1984, the interest and consequently the number of publications i n the area have increased tremendously, leaving the newcomers to the field trapped in a jungle of papers and reports. In this paper we review and clas sify major publications on interior-point methods theory, on the practical implementation of the most successful interior-point algorithms, and on the ir applications to power systems optimization problems. A listing of state- of-the-art interior-point software codes and major online research resource s in the Internet are included.